A bank or dam to keep back water.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
A bay platform.
A bay window.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
A horse of this color.
The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
A tract covered with bay trees.
To howl.
To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
A breakwater.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.